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Hi folks, I picked up this Stanley no. 75 spoke shave from a local antique store. I saw it in their cabinet and thought this would be a great tool for shaping new axe and hammer handles. It looks pretty clean already, just needs a light clean up to remove the rust and probably a good sharpening...

Wow that's the grand daddy, look at those side boxes too! Dang.

I would guess sometime in the 70's? A few members on here have tracked down some catalogue pages from back in the day that show this unit.

Thank you!

Thanks! Yep I'm in Canada, and while Beach boxes are relatively common this specific model seems quite uncommon. Now I just need to load all my tools into this one!

...and then I polished the fold down covers and all of the drawer faces by hand, lubed, and re-assembled everything. Worth it!

I used some Tremclad Gloss Fire Red to do some touchups to the inside of the box and the inside of some of the badly worn drawers. The tremclad shade of red is nearly dead-on, it's just glossier than the finish on the box. All of the drawers will get a rubber bottom liner, so those touchups are...

Some pressure washing and scrubbing...

A few before shots... I didn't realize until I got it home that all of the letters were drawn on with dry-erase markers, so they all came off in 10 seconds...

As an update to my post in the toolbox thread HERE... I've finished pressure washing, scrubbing, painting (only minor drawer touch ups and inside of box), polishing, lubing, and re-assembling my new Beach box. This one took a lot of elbow grease! It's not perfect but that wasn't the intention...

These are my Beach boxes, I've had the top/bottom set for many years and I absolutely love them. I just acquired the wider bottom box, which definitely needs a good scrub and maybe a new coat of paint. I've only ever come across two of these wide bottom boxes for sale and I missed the first one...

Hey guys, I just finished cleaning up this Reed 206 vise. It's a 153 pound unit, 6" jaws, about 12" tall and 25" long. It's definitely the biggest vise I've ever owned, and way bigger than I need. I hope I'm allowed to post video links because I also made a YouTube video showing my restoration...

Shameless plug for my Axe Restoration videos on youtube :)

I have a hydronic heating system too, I had to drain my expansion tank (non-bladder style) for this exact problem last year. My 30psi pressure relief valve was dripping water each time the boiler fired up. On my expansion tank there's three valves... one valve which seperates the tank from the...

I appreciate all the comments and insight. I've been researching this stuff for the better part of the summer and I still find completely opposite opinions no matter where I look. To give some context: My house is a 1.5 storey, prior to this summer it had a gable vent on each end of the peak as...

I understand what ice damming is, I just don't understand your opinion on why installing vented soffit won't help. ABSOLUTELY. I have a small house, only about 35' wide, 25' deep. It's a 1.5 storey with very basic soffit/fascia/eavestrough. I have a 35' straight run at the front and 35'...

I've read up on ice damming quite a bit and I'm curious why you think vented soffit won't help. Can you explain?

Hey guys... I recently bought new aluminum soffit for my house. I replaced my old un-vented soffit for new vented soffit (and cut a bunch of holes in the wood soffit underneath of course). I've had some ice-damming in the past winters and I'm hoping this will help. Anyhow...my overhangs are...

This reminded me of this video, might offer some inspiration.

I'm pretty sure what's pictured is all that's included. I figure I can find another motor but having it hooked to a vfd would be nice for varying the speed easily, jogging the motor, easy reverse etc. I agree about the paint thing, looks sloppy and indicative that they may be trying to cover...